Ben Cardin actually said...

"Some of it is too stringent... that's hurting our scientific effort."

"I also think we need to know, of all the people who registered, how many would have had to have registered for tier one if we had a different registration system."

"I think, anecdotally, many of us have had the experience of people being disqualified from national security clearances for unknown reasons."

"I think that the National Science Advisory Board on Biology... has to be fine-tuned."